Barsness Lutheran Church; a Brief Review of the Activities of the Congregation, on the
Occasion of the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Its Organization,
1867-1942. Glenwood, Minnesota, 1942. 33 p.

A history of the church, p. 5-13, was "assembled and compiled by Edward E.
Barsness." The church is located in Barsness Township, Pope County, Minnesota.

This annual picnic in Blue Earth, Minnesota, brings together large numbers of southern
Minnesota residents and erstwhile neighbors from Story, Hamilton, and Hardin counties,
Iowa, as well as alumni of the former Jewell Lutheran College.

A trip from Norway to New York of a different sort from the days of the sailboats. This
time a Norwegian captain tells the story, and the conditions are those of war. The trip
covers the period January 10, 1940-August 16, 1941.

The contents of this volume are as follows: Norwegian-American Surnames, by Marjorie M.
Kimmerle; Norwegian Folk Narrative in America, by Ella Valborg Rølvaag; A Journey to
America in the Fifties, by Clara Jacobson; James Denoon Reymert and the Norwegian Press,
by Martin L. Reymert; Recollections of a Norwegian Pioneer in Texas, by Knudt Olson
Hastvedt, translated and edited by C. A. Clausen; Norwegian Clubs in Chicago, by Birger
Osland; Buslett's Editorship of Normannen from 1894 to 1896, by Evelyn Nilsen; Ole
Edvart Rølvaag, by John Heitmann; Ole Evinrude and the Outboard Motor, by Kenneth Bjørk;
Some Recent Publications relating to Norwegian-American History, VIII, compiled by Jacob
Hodnefield.

Principally a statement about Hjalmar R. Holand's work on the subject of the Kensington
rune stone, with special mention of Holand's book, Westward from Vinland. The
author does not attempt to pass judgment on the authenticity of the rune stone.

An essay discussing Boyesen's fiction and essays as contributing to an interpretation
of Scandinavian immigration.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

Decorah-posten reprints in its issues of September 25 and 29 and of October 2,
1942, an article by Paul Hjelm-Hansen on his impressions of America. It appeared
originally in Nordisk folke-blad on November 4, 1869.

Carl G. O. Hansen continued in Sønner a[ Norge his history of the Sons of
Norway lodge.

Professor Einar Haugen of the department of Scandinavian of the University of Wisconsin
has been granted a Guggenheim fellowship for research on the linguistic transition of
immigrants.

Nordfordlagets aarbok for 1941-42 has appeared under the editorship of R. J. Meland
of Minneapolis.

Old Muskego Saga, although it is "published monthly by the Lutheran
Brotherhoods of the Old Muskego Lutheran Parish," is more than a parish paper. It
carries a number of historical articles concerning the old Muskego settlement. The paper
is issued at Waterford, Wisconsin, and the editor is the Reverend It. C. M. Jahren, pastor
of the congregation.

In the May, 1942, issue of the Norwegian-American Technical Journal are found a
number of articles that give a fair idea of the contributions of engineers to the war
effort. Two articles, one by Ole Reigstad and one by Magnus Bjørndal, concern Little
Norway at Toronto.

Chicago has a Viking, published by the Viking Publishing Company under the
editorship of Reidar Rye Haugan, which first appeared in 1941.

Nordmanns-forbundet has moved to the United States and the first editor in this
country was none other than Carl J. Hambro. Dr. E. Hambro has been editor since March,
1942. The address is 65 Stockton Street, Princeton, New Jersey. The change is explained in
the issue of December, 1941. Some numbers for the summer of 1941 will be missing in most
American files of the periodical.